Re: PCI scanning IRQ fix.

2006-01-29 Thread Gianluca Guida
Hi, On 1/29/06, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is weird. I always thought that for compatibility reasons IRQs > are always <16. In case the OS supports more than 16 IRQs, the OS can > change the IRQs to prevent shared IRQs. With your NIC this is not the > case, is this a BIOS b

Re: gnumach patch (ide unexpected interrupt, hang, then irq timeout)

2006-01-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Thomas Schwinge, le Thu 26 Jan 2006 09:36:25 -0500, a écrit : > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 01:25:47PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > 2005-07-30 Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * irq.c (linux_intr): Disable interrupts when the driver > > requested it through request_irq()

Re: PCI scanning IRQ fix.

2006-01-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Gianluca Guida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Gianluca, > My laptop's motherboard set its RTL8139 NIC IRQ at a value that is not > included in the range 0<=x<16 and it's not 255. That is weird. I always thought that for compatibility reasons IRQs are always <16. In case the OS supports more th

Re: GNU Mach's build system (partly) reworked

2006-01-29 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
> ./configure --prefix='$(libexecdir)/foo' --libexecdir=/foo Do you really consider that as a valid use case? Putting libexecdir's files into `/foo/' and everything else into `/foo/foo/{bin,share,...}/'? Yes, I have ended up using similar hacks on several occassions. If this real

Re: GNU Mach's build system (partly) reworked

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 06:46:35PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >Yes, as long as we don't let the build system create Makefiles in >subdirectories, which we don't at the moment. Changed. > > Would be better to simply stop using manually maintained .in's, and > use automake, then one won

Re: GNU Mach's build system (partly) reworked

2006-01-29 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 06:46:35PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > ./configure --prefix='$(libexecdir)/foo' --libexecdir=/foo Do you really consider that as a valid use case? Putting libexecdir's files into `/foo/' and everything else into `/foo/foo/{bin,share,...}/'? If this really bothers you

Re: GNU Mach's build system (partly) reworked

2006-01-29 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
> You removed libexecdir (and maybe some other variables), why? > Doing something like `--prefix=$(libexecdir)/foo' is always OK. > All variables that can be substituted should be listed. The > variables also get partially expanded, so that is one more reason > to list all of them (

Re: GNU Mach's build system (partly) reworked

2006-01-29 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:39:57PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >2006-01-28 Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Makefile.in: Various cleanups. Do not include $(sysdep)/Makefrag > anymore. Move shared and system dependent stuff out of this file. > Include

Re: OT: Fixed Roland'd Hurd EA ext2 patch for Linux

2006-01-29 Thread cascardo
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:28:23PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > I don't know what the procedure to include a patch in Linux is. If > there are some problems including the patch (copyright, functionality, > ...) then this is up to the maintainers of Linux to point out. I > think there is no ha

Re: OT: Fixed Roland'd Hurd EA ext2 patch for Linux

2006-01-29 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
I am subscribed to the list. No need to send the messages to me in private unless you are in a hurry, since gnu servers seem to be late these days. :-) It is normal to CC all people whom you reply to on a mailing list. However, the modifications are not made properly by GPL2 (includi

Re: OT: Fixed Roland'd Hurd EA ext2 patch for Linux

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:42:22PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > It would be a pitty if users had to recompile their kernel to have > this supported, is there any possibility of including this in Linux? I hope Roland will submit this upstream once this has been tested a bit more. I will roll D

Re: OT: Fixed Roland'd Hurd EA ext2 patch for Linux

2006-01-29 Thread cascardo
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:42:22PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > It would be a pitty if users had to recompile their kernel to have > this supported, is there any possibility of including this in Linux? I am subscribed to the list. No need to send the messages to me in private unless you are in

Re: OT: Fixed Roland'd Hurd EA ext2 patch for Linux

2006-01-29 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
It would be a pitty if users had to recompile their kernel to have this supported, is there any possibility of including this in Linux? ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: GNU Mach's build system (partly) reworked (was: Compile GNU Mach 1.3 drivers)

2006-01-29 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
2006-01-28 Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makefile.in: Various cleanups. Do not include $(sysdep)/Makefrag anymore. Move shared and system dependent stuff out of this file. Include Makerules. This says nothing about what actually changed. `Did stuff

GNU Mach's build system (partly) reworked (was: Compile GNU Mach 1.3 drivers)

2006-01-29 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:01:22PM +0200, I wrote: > [...] > The problem is basically that the whole build is driven by the > "all-architectures" Makefile, which doen't know about the architecture > specific configure options, which `--enable-lpr' is (the only one, > though). > > Fixing that issu

OT: Fixed Roland'd Hurd EA ext2 patch for Linux

2006-01-29 Thread cascardo
A fixed patch for supporting passive translators in Linux follows. This is a simple fix of the latest Roland's patch. Since I fixed the patch by hand, don't expect it to apply cleanly (it wouldn't anyway in linux 2.6.14) and tell me if there is any problem with it. Besides including a comment in